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Moranthology
The very best of Caitlin Moran – in the first ever collection of her writing.
‘In How To Be a Woman, I was limited to a single topic: women. Their hair, their shoes and their crushes on Aslan from The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (which I KNOW to be universal).
‘However! In my new book Moranthology – as the title suggests – I am set free to tackle THE REST OF THE WORLD...more
‘In How To Be a Woman, I was limited to a single topic: women. Their hair, their shoes and their crushes on Aslan from The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (which I KNOW to be universal).
‘However! In my new book Moranthology – as the title suggests – I am set free to tackle THE REST OF THE WORLD...more
Hardcover, 354 pages
Published
September 13th 2012
by Ebury Press
(first published September 1st 2012)
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As far as I'm concerned, Caitlin Moran is a genius. Her style is chaotic and chatty on the surface, and she seems to have real problems understanding the semicolon, but under the bonnet every sentence is assembled with such beautiful precision. Her phrases are spring-loaded to take you by surprise. And I suppose, because I also grew up in 80s-90s Britain, there is also something incredibly appealing about her shared pool of references.
‘She has no identity, save that which advertisers sell her,’...more
‘She has no identity, save that which advertisers sell her,’...more
I was going on a very long bus ride that I knew would leave me inevitably grumpy. I wandered Barnes & Noble, unable to find something funny to distract me from my impending angst. Then I remembered that Caitlin Moran had another book out! I swooped, I bought, I packed. Now, 24 hours having purchased the book, I'm finished.
The think about reading Moran is that you feel like you're having drinks with your talkative, eccentric friend who never means to clash her clothes or have a random sandwic...more
The think about reading Moran is that you feel like you're having drinks with your talkative, eccentric friend who never means to clash her clothes or have a random sandwic...more
The last time I went on vacation, I discovered the joy of David Sedaris' books. I wanted a similar experience this time- something light, funny, and highly entertaining. I found this book on the bargain shelf for Nook reads at Barnes and Noble, and decided to give it a try. I am glad I did. A collection of articles Caitlin Moran has written for The Times of London, this book covers topics ranging from the vast superiority of Doctor Who over all other shows to growing up on "benefits" and even, b...more
This latest book by Caitlin Moran perhaps lacked the coherent thread linking the chapters together the way 'How to be a Woman' did, but nonetheless was an entertaining, humorous and well worth reading book.
I would say that this book seems more accessible than her last as it doesn't 'scare off' those who perhaps think reading a book about women or feminism is not for 'real men'. Whilst I certainly wouldn't let a lack of ovaries stop me from reading 'How to be a Woman', I still feel the broad sco...more
I would say that this book seems more accessible than her last as it doesn't 'scare off' those who perhaps think reading a book about women or feminism is not for 'real men'. Whilst I certainly wouldn't let a lack of ovaries stop me from reading 'How to be a Woman', I still feel the broad sco...more
For those of us who are new to the phenomenon that is Caitlin Moran, this compilation of columns proves that she is an unparalleled artist, painting with a brush of words and a palette of intelligence, hilarity, conscience, introspection, and interpersonality. In other words, her writing is wicked smart, uber perceptive, totally principled, and super freaking funny.
Only two problems separate "Moranthology" from "How To Be a Woman," an irrefutably five-star book: (1) the nature of an anthology an...more
Only two problems separate "Moranthology" from "How To Be a Woman," an irrefutably five-star book: (1) the nature of an anthology an...more
Having read and thoroughly enjoyed UK writer Caitlin Moran's "How To
Be a Woman," I've recommended it to friends, comparing it to
Tina Fey's best-selling "Bossypants," another mostly humorous but
deeply felt book about the experiences of being a woman. I started
following Moran on Twitter and have certainly gotten more than my
money's worth.
Someone must have been listening to my raves, because I received
Moran's latest book, "Moranthology," as a Christmas gift. It is a
collection of her old and not-so-...more
Be a Woman," I've recommended it to friends, comparing it to
Tina Fey's best-selling "Bossypants," another mostly humorous but
deeply felt book about the experiences of being a woman. I started
following Moran on Twitter and have certainly gotten more than my
money's worth.
Someone must have been listening to my raves, because I received
Moran's latest book, "Moranthology," as a Christmas gift. It is a
collection of her old and not-so-...more
Torn between three and four stars on this one. Some of the pieces are better than others, for sure, and, you know, it's a book slapped together of a bunch of stuff she already wrote, and I definitely don't care enough about a lot of the pop culture stuff (like, I REALLY do not care about the royal wedding) she writes about to really care to read rambling thoughts about it when it's not even timely. But, who am I kidding, I just LIKE her. And I laughed out loud a lot. Not every piece is a home ru...more
Caitlin Moran had a bestselling book, How To Be A Woman, a book that humorously and honestly celebrates being a woman and a feminist. That book's success led to another book, Moranthology, a compilation of Moran's columns from the Times of London.
I have not yet read How To Be A Woman, but it is on my TBR list. As someone who used to write a weekly column on food and family, (and a feminist), I was really looking forward to this new book.
Moran writes mostly about entertainment, and anyone who is...more
I have not yet read How To Be A Woman, but it is on my TBR list. As someone who used to write a weekly column on food and family, (and a feminist), I was really looking forward to this new book.
Moran writes mostly about entertainment, and anyone who is...more
MORANTHOLOGY is, rather logically, an anthology of columns by Caitlin Moran. Moran wrote the bestselling HOW TO BE A WOMAN, but she's been well known in the U.K. for years because of her columns for The Times. This collection of her favorites covers a variety of topics, including everyone's favorite BBC shows Downton Abbey and Sherlock.
My personal favorites were her ode to libraries and her interviews with famous musicians. Moran grew up in a council house and was self taught, which gives especi...more
My personal favorites were her ode to libraries and her interviews with famous musicians. Moran grew up in a council house and was self taught, which gives especi...more
Why do I love her so much? Quite simply because she's hilarious. She makes excellent observations, which make you laugh, and at the same time consider often serious topics from a new light. You learn something, you feel entertained. What's not to love?
She also interviews celebs a lot. Including a now super-famous interview with Lady Gaga in Berlin which culminated in them all going off to a sex club in Berlin, dancing the night away, and Lady Gaga doing a wee in front of her (she was then able t...more
She also interviews celebs a lot. Including a now super-famous interview with Lady Gaga in Berlin which culminated in them all going off to a sex club in Berlin, dancing the night away, and Lady Gaga doing a wee in front of her (she was then able t...more
How I wish I could open up my newspaper & read Caitlin Moran's column every week. Of course I could, with the handy access provided by the Internet, but I'd rather guffaw & spill my coffee onto said newspaper than onto my laptop, which is inevitably what would happen.
This collection of Moran's brain droppings is brilliant, and clever, and stubborn, and ridiculous, and bittersweet full of every ounce of the life I wish I were living. Being addicted to all things Anglo - she covers the fo...more
This collection of Moran's brain droppings is brilliant, and clever, and stubborn, and ridiculous, and bittersweet full of every ounce of the life I wish I were living. Being addicted to all things Anglo - she covers the fo...more
Oh Cate (I call her Cate, 'cause in my head, we're friends), stop making my girl-crush on you worse...
A collection of the columns written for The Times encompassing Sherlock, why Ghostbusters is the best film ever made (I agree (whisper - unless we include Jaws) - and Bill Murray is another of my very close imaginary friends), making stupid remarks while drunk, Mooncups (I looked that up and...I can't even...), benefit cuts and library closures, female popstars no longer able to make songs witho...more
A collection of the columns written for The Times encompassing Sherlock, why Ghostbusters is the best film ever made (I agree (whisper - unless we include Jaws) - and Bill Murray is another of my very close imaginary friends), making stupid remarks while drunk, Mooncups (I looked that up and...I can't even...), benefit cuts and library closures, female popstars no longer able to make songs witho...more
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After reading "How to be a Woman" by Caitlin Moran I was extremely curious about this particular woman who opened my mind to contemporary feminism. In "Moranthology", a compilation of some of her columns about life and pop culture, plus in bed discussions with her husband, Moran talks about the Royal Wedding, why she doesn't travel the world, her hair, her love for the BBC series Sherlock, among hundreds of other things. It's funny, entertaining and well written. She gives us her feminist perspe...more
i really love her natterings and ramblings
i admire her because i want to BE her...as in she's a journalist just stating her opinion and people listen to her..although she does get hate mail as well as positive letters but she has a lot to say on random things from fangirling about Sherlock and Doctor Who to why libraries and the welfare state is awesome.
also her childhood is so messed up so she has so many crazy stories.
but the thing i loved most were the convos with her husband late at night....more
i admire her because i want to BE her...as in she's a journalist just stating her opinion and people listen to her..although she does get hate mail as well as positive letters but she has a lot to say on random things from fangirling about Sherlock and Doctor Who to why libraries and the welfare state is awesome.
also her childhood is so messed up so she has so many crazy stories.
but the thing i loved most were the convos with her husband late at night....more
I really enjoyed How to be a Woman, Moran's previous work which dealt with feminism and sparked a debate among a huge amount of people on feminism's place in today's society, which was really cool. Moranthology is essentially a collection of her columns that she writes for The Times, which I was super excited about as I don't tend to buy that paper-and the paywall prevents me from reading her columns.
As with How to be a Woman, Moran's writing is incredibly approachable, and frequently feels like...more
As with How to be a Woman, Moran's writing is incredibly approachable, and frequently feels like...more
Let’s let my new BFF Caitlin Moran describe what this book is about for you:
In HOW TO BE A WOMAN, I was limited to a single topic: women. Their hair, their shoes and their crushes on Aslan from The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (which I KNOW to be universal). However! In my new book MORANTHOLOGY – as the title suggests – I am set free to tackle THE REST OF THE WORLD: Ghostbusters, Twitter, caffeine, panic attacks, Michael Jackson’s memorial service, being a middle-class marijuana addict, Do...more
In HOW TO BE A WOMAN, I was limited to a single topic: women. Their hair, their shoes and their crushes on Aslan from The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (which I KNOW to be universal). However! In my new book MORANTHOLOGY – as the title suggests – I am set free to tackle THE REST OF THE WORLD: Ghostbusters, Twitter, caffeine, panic attacks, Michael Jackson’s memorial service, being a middle-class marijuana addict, Do...more
After her tremendously successful book How To Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran is back with a collection of columns she's written for The Times Magazine in her appropriately named anthology Moranthology.
Wading through a mishmash of different topics, mostly in the realms of popular culture, she also broaches more serious topics, such as living on benefits, or, my personal favorites, allows up-close-and-personal insights into her life, including how she got her trademark grey hair strand. Topics may var...more
Wading through a mishmash of different topics, mostly in the realms of popular culture, she also broaches more serious topics, such as living on benefits, or, my personal favorites, allows up-close-and-personal insights into her life, including how she got her trademark grey hair strand. Topics may var...more
I adore Caitlin Moran. She's acerbic, warm, funny, and a very smart observer of pop culture. After devouring HOW TO BE A WOMAN I couldn't wait to get my hands on this collection of her previously published pieces.
This is a mix of celebrity interviews (Keith Richards, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney), pop culture observations (the royal wedding, Michael Jackson's funeral, Downton Abbey vs Sherlock), and social commentary (parenting, feminism, etc). Each piece is short and pithy but still very satisfyi...more
This is a mix of celebrity interviews (Keith Richards, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney), pop culture observations (the royal wedding, Michael Jackson's funeral, Downton Abbey vs Sherlock), and social commentary (parenting, feminism, etc). Each piece is short and pithy but still very satisfyi...more
This is the first ebook I've ever read. This is of no relevance to the review, I just felt like I should point it out.
Anyway, the book itself is a collection of journalistic pieces by Caitlin Moran (pronounced CATlin - respect, my fellow confusingly-named person! That extra 'i' just throws everybody off!) ranging from celebrity interviews to feminist points to bits about fish and Sherlock. Kind of a 'best of' collection, if you will.
When this book was good, it was really REALLY good. It was funn...more
Anyway, the book itself is a collection of journalistic pieces by Caitlin Moran (pronounced CATlin - respect, my fellow confusingly-named person! That extra 'i' just throws everybody off!) ranging from celebrity interviews to feminist points to bits about fish and Sherlock. Kind of a 'best of' collection, if you will.
When this book was good, it was really REALLY good. It was funn...more
This book was great. Great. I don't usually read this sort of thing; the books published by women who should really be comedians but instead have talk shows and tv series where they play themselves. Or, you know, are columnists for the London Times. On the front cover Caitlin Moran is compared to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham when really she's all her own. And she's hilarious. She's like what Carrie Bradshaw would have been if she wasn't so into finding guys and more in tune with po...more
This book is very funny. Very very funny. Moran explores married life a bit, politics a bit, celebrity quite a bit and what's hot on british TV a lot. Her pieces will probably make you laugh out loud. I was prompted to tweet her that if I had been eating noodles at one point while reding her description of how to cover an embarrassing Tube train incident, that I would have laughed them out of my nose. There are also some thoughtful social pieces and a couple of real tear jerkers. Her short piece...more
The Good Stuff
Call me Caitlin we would sooo get along - even better I say we do a Girls Night Out with Mindy Kaling, Tina Fey, Jenny Lawson, you and me. It would be - to quotes m 4 yr old - EPIC!
Laugh out loud funny yet touching and honest
Vicki told me I would love it and she was right -- thanks for the chat about this author that night at Lemony Snickett
The night time conversations between Caitlin and her hubby are hilarious
The MTV Hoes piece is right on - nicely written Caitlin
The girl i...more
Call me Caitlin we would sooo get along - even better I say we do a Girls Night Out with Mindy Kaling, Tina Fey, Jenny Lawson, you and me. It would be - to quotes m 4 yr old - EPIC!
Laugh out loud funny yet touching and honest
Vicki told me I would love it and she was right -- thanks for the chat about this author that night at Lemony Snickett
The night time conversations between Caitlin and her hubby are hilarious
The MTV Hoes piece is right on - nicely written Caitlin
The girl i...more
Caitlin Moran is back to her vulgar and hilarious self, this time in a collection of her columns previously unavailable in the United States unless one was very good at Google. Her off kilter sense of humor displayed previously in How to Be a Woman once again supplements her surprisingly insightful and hilarious points. Her observational humor ranges from the beginning of her writing career (bringing a cake into London on a train only to have it spoil on the way to her story meeting) and contemp...more
Attention all pop culture fans/anglophiles! If you love celebrities, British TV and scathing social commentary with a big dash of humor, then you should check out Moranthology! Moranthology is a collection of Caitlin's humorous and insightful articles for the London Times. Topics run the gamut from celebrity interviews (Kieth Richards! Gaga! Sir Paul McCartney!) to popular TV shows such as Downton Abbey, to gutsy pieces in response to social and political events such as severe budget cuts that w...more
After reading "How to be a Woman", I awaited Caitlin Moran's next offering with great anticipation. Moranthology is a collection of her witty, hilarious but often moving Times column pieces, so is more varied than HTBAW. As a child of the 80's, a lot of what she writes sbout really resounds with me. I always feel as though I am on a boozy night out with a girlfriend when i'm reading her work. I love her use of language & also how she explores the most mundane of subjects and manages to injec...more
I love this girl - and not just because we have the same first name. I love her chaotic, funny, random style - and she tackles both "fluffy" topics and serious ones in this collection of her columns.
The column format suits Moran - I found with "How to be a woman" that the chapters were so wonderful on their own I've gone back and re-read certain parts. Likewise with this collection, although I technically did read from cover to cover, I actually cheated and snuck to the Holmes/Dr Who pieces firs...more
The column format suits Moran - I found with "How to be a woman" that the chapters were so wonderful on their own I've gone back and re-read certain parts. Likewise with this collection, although I technically did read from cover to cover, I actually cheated and snuck to the Holmes/Dr Who pieces firs...more
I really like Caitlin Morans writing. It is very idiosyncratic & very her! I feel a sort of kinship with her as we are the same age, like alternative music, like to write (& read) and see the funny side of most things. The difference being between us is that she has managed to carve out a very sucessfull career out of, well, being her really! How fabulous to get paid for writing your opinion. about things you are interested in! I always think her articles/columns/books convey her enthusi...more
I love Caitlin Moran's approach, to writing and to life in general. This book is basically a collection of her various columns but nearly all were new to me as I don't read the English papers. I am, however, going to investigate more online examples of her work. This book often made me laugh out loud, and always made me think. To paraphrase, "in my dreams, as a fan, I would be on casual, cheerful email terms - enjoying the very great pleasure of seeing her name in my inbox, in black pixel." And...more
It's official...I love Caitlin Moran, or I wish I was as funny as her...either or this is an awesome read. Even to those who wouldn't regularly read her columns, there's a bit in here for everyone, and I have been annoying my friends and family continuously with saying 'just read this bit', 'but you love GaGa' and 'I promise you laugh out loud on this one'. I was especially happy to find out that someone else thinks that Ghostbusters are cooler than Jedi's (a part from my mate Lisa, who I have a...more
Yesterday I reviewed Moran's summer release, How To Be A Woman, and today I'm reviewing Moranthology, which is a collection of columns and articles written by Moran on everything from popular culture (Twitter, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Sherlock) to celebrities (Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney) to serious cultural issues (welfare, library closures, feminism).
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Lots of these articles are hilarious, but since it's not straight-up humor, I'm going to separate my reviews for writing...more
Writing
Lots of these articles are hilarious, but since it's not straight-up humor, I'm going to separate my reviews for writing...more
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Caitlin Moran had literally no friends in 1990, and so had plenty of time to write her first novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of fifteen. At sixteen she joined music weekly, Melody Maker, and at eighteen briefly presented the pop show 'Naked City' on Channel 4. Following this precocious start she then put in eighteen solid years as a columnist on The Times – both as a TV critic and also...more
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